Glastonbury Festival could be relocating to a new site in 2017

Glastonbury Festival could be moving in 2017. The festival organiser, Michael Eavis, was giving a talk at the Oxford Union last night when he revealed the news. Oxford Union tweeted a few of his points including the news that he is looking for a potential site and his reasons for doing this. He said that the current site, Worthy Farm, might not be suitable anymore due to the size of the whole festival. They currently need to rent the land from 22 farmers in order to facilitate the size of the operation.

Eavis: #Glastonbury is so big, we're looking to potentially move in 2017, it's a huge operation and the site might not be suitable any more

— Oxford Union (@OxfordUnion) May 2, 2016

Eavis: We don't own all the land - I could have bought the land for #Glastonbury but I don't think that is the right thing to do. — Oxford Union (@OxfordUnion) May 2, 2016

Eavis: #Glastonbury is now so big we need to rent land from 22 other farmers now! It's nothing short of a miracle that were still going! — Oxford Union (@OxfordUnion) May 2, 2016

He also addressed rumours that Coldplay and Beyoncé would be headlining.

Eavis: Rumours of @Beyonce and @coldplay headlining #Glastonbury? I can't comment but there are better rumours than that going around! — Oxford Union (@OxfordUnion) May 2, 2016